SF Politics Kamala Harris for California Governor? New Poll Shows She'd Be the Frontrunner A new LA Times poll finds the job of succeeding Gavin Newsom as California Governor could easily be Kamala Harris’s if she wanted it, in large part because hardly anyone recognizes the names of the other people expected to run.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Regrets There Was No Open Primary, Points Finger at Biden For Not Stepping Aside Earlier The blame game among Democrats had already begun Tuesday night as election returns began signaling a return to power for the outraged orange egotist. And House Speaker Emerita has already given an interview to the New York Times revealing her feelings.
SF News Apocalyptic Election Hangover Links: Harris to Give Speech This Afternoon Kamala Harris is scheduled to speak at 1 pm PT; stocks soar on the news of a Trump win; and Kara Swisher suggests Truth Social might merge with X and become a meme stock.
SF News Bay Area Law Enforcement Gearing Up for Possible Election Night, Post-Election Mayhem Whether it's celebratory riots, large-scale protests, or opportunistic criminals looking to loot because police might otherwise be distracted, Bay Area police departments are bracing for possible crime and bedlam on Election Night or later this week.
SF Politics What Happens When Billionaires Own the Media: Two Major US Newspapers Decline to Endorse Harris Over a Fascist Endorsements in this year's presidential race by the editorial boards of the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post have been killed by the papers' billionaire owners. What does this say about the state of our media?
SF Politics New Trump Ads Dredge Up the 2007 Chauncey Bailey Murder, Try to Blame Kamala Harris For It The latest Trump attack ad claims one of the 2007 Chauncey Bailey killers “should have been in jail” when Bailey was killed. But the reality is that the office of then-SF DA Kamala Harris did put that suspect in jail for a year.
SF Politics Chronicle Infers That Maybe Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi Aren't All That Cool With Each Other Right Now An exhaustive analysis from the Chronicle wonders if there’s some chilly vibes in the relationship between Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, possibly dating back to Harris beating Pelosi’s friend DA Terence Hallinan in 2003.
Business & Tech Of Course a Waymo Got In the Way of Kamala Harris's Motorcade on Nob Hill Friday Night You can't even get a (vice) presidential motorcade through the streets of San Francisco these days without tripping over a self-driving taxi.
SF Politics Does Janet Jackson's Beef With Kamala Harris Stem From Comments Harris Made Before Michael Jackson's 2005 Trial? Pop star Janet Jackson has not walked back some odd comments she made during an interview with a UK publication, repeating falsehoods promulgated in right-wing circles about Kamala Harris's race. And this has raised questions about what Jackson's motivations may be.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Janet Jackson Called Out For Repeating Misinformation About Kamala Harris's Race Janet Jackson is facing backlash for saying she'd "heard" that Kamala Harris isn't really Black; two brothers from Hayward are facing murder charges stemming from a botched robbery; and SF Travel has a new, permanent CEO.
SF Politics Kimberly Guilfoyle Is No Fan of Kamala Harris, and Their History In SF Politics Is Personal The New York Times is dredging up some old dirt about a longstanding beef between presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and Trump's almost-daughter-in-law Kimberly Guilfoyle, which dates back to when Harris was an assistant DA.
SF Politics Russian Troll Farms Blamed for Fake Viral Story That Kamala Harris Ran Over a 13-Year-Old Girl A story from a fake and supposedly SF-based news site claimed that VP Kamala Harris had hit a 13-year-old girl with her car and left her paralyzed. The site has since gone offline, and Microsoft analysts have determined it was run by a Russian influence campaign.
SF Politics Guy Who Bought Kamala Harris’s Old SoMa Condo Now Renting It Out on Airbnb The former South of Market home of presidential nominee Kamala Harris has now been transformed into a Kamala Harris-themed Airbnb, though it will cost you a minimum of $6,000 to stay there.
SF Politics SF’s Own Linda Ronstadt Goes Full-On ‘Childless Cat Lady’ In Condemning Trump, Endorsing Harris Donald Trump happens to be holding a rally today at Tucson, Arizona’s Linda Ronstadt Music Hall. San Francisco resident Linda Ronstadt is furious about this, and posted a Taylor-Swift style “childless cat lady” endorsement of Kamala Harris.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Offers to Impregnate Taylor Swift In Ill-Advised, Tuesday Night Tweet Elon Musk doubles down on the creepiness of his already weird polygamist-baby-factory lifestyle by tweeting at Taylor Swift Tuesday night, following her endorsement of Kamala Harris.
SF Politics Six Presidential Debate Watch Parties Tuesday In San Francisco The microphones won’t be muted at these six Bay Area presidential debate watch parties Tuesday night, many featuring booze, bingo, or comedians just making fun of the whole thing.
SF Politics SF Democrats Take Over Vacant Nordstrom Rack on Market Street Just in time for the big Harris-Trump debate Tuesday, the new campaign headquarters of the San Francisco Democratic Party is opening at Fifth and Market streets, in the former Nordstrom Rack store.
SF Politics Trump Reposts Blowjob Joke About Kamala Harris and Willie Brown And in the latest example of Donald Trump acting less like a president and more like a crude teenage boy, he reposted a joke on Truth Social that makes an off-color reference to both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
SF Politics New Trump PAC Ad Unloads on Kamala Harris Over 2008 Incident When She Was SF DA You won’t see this TV ad in California, but it’s all over the swing states, dredging up a 2008 incident where an undocumented immigrant whom Kamala Harris released on drug charges committed a purse-snatching that ended in the victim’s skull being fractured.
SF Politics RFK Jr.’s Bay Area Veep Pick Says Campaign Might Soon Throw In the Towel and Endorse Trump The RFK Jr. presidential campaign must be feeling bearish about their chances, as his VP pick Nicole Shanahan just admitted on a podcast that they’re thinking of quitting and endorsing Trump.
SF Politics Willie Brown Says He'll Sue Trump If He Continues to Tell False Helicopter Story Former SF Mayor Willie Brown is now threatening legal action against Donald Trump over a story he told, involving alleged comments about Kamala Harris, and involving a helicopter having mechanical problems.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Rolled Into SF For Sunday Fundraiser, Pulled in $12 Million, Drew More Than 100 Pro-Palestine Protesters Vice president and now-Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris held her first SF fundraiser since she was catapulted to the top of the ticket on Sunday, and raised an estimated $12 million, but also faced nearly 150 protesters calling out the Israeli attacks on Gaza.
SF Politics Trump Mixes Up Willie Brown and Jerry Brown In Helicopter Story, Newsom Says Willie Brown calls bullshit on Trump's story about sharing a bumpy helicopter ride, but it turns out Trump did ride in a helicopter once with a California politician named Brown.
SF Politics Trump Claims In Bizarre Press Conference That Willie Brown Said ‘Terrible Things’ About Kamala Harris When he wasn’t claiming that he drew bigger crowds than Dr. Martin Luther King at his meandering Thursday press conference, Donald Trump also claimed that Kamala Harris’s mentor Willie Brown said “terrible things” about her, without elaborating about what these things were.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Headed Back Home to SF This Weekend For Fundraiser Vice President Kamala Harris is headed back to her hometown this weekend to raise money for her presidential campaign, marking her first visit back to the Bay Area since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee.
